We have published the new quality frameworks for support services (care at home, including supported living models of support). It reflects Scotland’s Health and Social Care Standards, which are rights-based, person-led and outcome-focused. The primary purpose...
Maximising Recovery, Promoting Independence: An Intermediate Care Framework for ScotlandPage
We have policies for home care providers, care home providers and nursing home providers in England, Scotland and Wales. What policies do we need for our CQC Registration? There is an extensive list of policies required for CQC registration. These cover areas such as Quality Assurance, Governan...
New ways of inspecting care homes for adults will start on 20 May 2019, reflecting Scotland’s Health and Social Care Standards which focus on people’s human rights, wellbeing and personal experiences of care. There are different types of care homes for adults. We have brought them ...
In-home ‘smart’ consumer devices such as voice assistants, doorbells, thermostats, and lightbulbs have been advocated by organisations in the UK such as the RNIB, Alzheimer Scotland, and the NHS. Yet the use of these devices, which are not purposely designed as care devices and therefore ar...
filing of In Practice Systems Limited, the provider of the Vision system widely used by the country’s GP practices, citing potential risks to system availability and access to medical records. The company is owned by Cegedim Group. NHS National Services Scotland has set up an incident response...
(2016) was also a collaborative endeavor, this time with SCOT-PEP, a sex worker–led organization in Scotland. Recently, Bauer founded a collective called the Feminist Research Group. Together with curators and theorists Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Marius Dybwad Brandrud, Binna Choi...
23. Healthcare Improvement Scotland. "Independent Healthcare Regulation: Inspection Methodology. July 2023. "FULL inspection within 5 years." 24. HIQA. "HIQA Announces a New Inspection and Monitoring Programme of Healthcare Services." 6 Apr. 2022. “HIQA has stated that all services will recei...
Secondly, the studies tended to focus on older populations, with only a small number of studies recruiting people living with MLTC below the age of 40 [45,62,63,64,76]. While ageing is associated with higher risk of MLTC, a study in Scotland found that more than half of people with ML...
The framework forms part of the delivery contracts for the NHS in England, Scotland and Wales and will run for two years, with an option to extend by up to two years. Interserve Healthcare (IHC) has been named on each of the three Lots which comprise the framework agreement. IHC is a...